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Bertil Ohlin, 1899-1979

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Swedish economist, Bertil Ohlin was one of the most outspoken members of the "Stockholm School" of the 1930s.   Ohlin taught at the Stockholm School of Economics from  1929.  He is best remembered for the "Heckscher-Ohlin" model of international trade and for his duels with John Maynard Keynes on reparations and macroeconomics.  

Ohlin shared the Nobel Memorial prize in 1977 with J.E. Meade.

 

  

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Major Works of Bertil Ohlin

  • "The Equilibrium Rate of Exchange", 1921, Ekon Tidsk.
  • Theory of Trade, 1924.
  • "Ist eine Modernisierung der Aussenhandelstheorie erforderlich?", 1927, WWA.
  • "Equilibrium in International Trade", 1928, QJE.
  • "The Reparation Problem: A discussion", 1929, EJ.
  • "The German Reparations Problem", 1930, Ekon Tidsk
  • "Die Beziehung zwischen internationalen Handel und internazionalen Bewegungen von Kapital und Arbeit", 1930, ZfN.
  • The Course and Phases of the World Economic Depression, 1931.
  • "Protection and Non-Competing Groups", 1931, WWA.
  • Interregional and International Trade, 1933.
  • "Mechanisms and Objectives of Exchange Controls", 1937, AER.
  • "Some Notes on the Stockholm Theory of Savings and Investment, I & II", 1937 EJ
  • "Alternative Theories of the Rate of Interest: Rejoinder", 1937, EJ
  • The Problem of Employment Stabilization, 1949.

 
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